The Arizona sentinel., 1887-10-08
HOME AND FARM.

-Vanllla beans split ana Dolleu III milk make q more delicate and cheaper iavoring for ice cream than the 3oughten extract:
 Apple water. Roast some half iozen apples. when cooked pour over them pint of boiling water Mash and strain them. Add sugar or honey. Boston Budget.
 Ripe cantaloupes will easily become detached from the vines, while green ones must be pulled off. They can not always be known to be ripe by the ap- pearanee,
 The bottom of an old keg or but ter firkin makes good mat to set your kettle on. Have one or two hang ing near the dish table. Make hole and put a string through to hang it by.
 A kind voice is like lark's Song to hearth and home. Boys and girls, use your guests voice at home. Watch it day by day, for it will be worth more to you in time to come than the best pearl hid in the sea
 A pound of copperas, costing three cents, in bucket of water, sprinNed from watering pot in the pig-pen, will prove a cheap and excellent disin- fectant, and will also largely assist in preventing disease.
 Success in farming may be said to depend on few things: rich soil, or soil made rich by the proper manures; the best stock and the best seeds; the best cultivation and the best care, and doing every thing at the right time.
 When chickens sleep droop, fall away and die, the only thing to do is to burn your chicken c0ops: They are full of coop lice, which are each night drawing the blood from your chickens and harassing the life out of them. If your coops are old, worn out things, burn them. Remove your chickens to clean. new quarters and feed them on meat and vegetable diet till they have recovered. -Fdrm and Home.
 Prof Tyndall has proved that at- mospheric germs can not pass through layer of cotton, and it is now said that preserved fruit may be kept in perfect condition by covering the jar with cotton batting. Ratification is caused by minute atmospheric germs. They are expelled by cooking, and the cotton batting prevents their return when the fruit cools. -I1diGnGpOLiS Sentinel.
 Fresh Mackeral. the fish, scald a bunch of herbs and chop them fine, and put them with one ounce of butter and three tablespoonfuls of soup stock into a stew-pan. Lay in the mackerel and simmer gently for ten minutes. Lift them out upon hot dish; dredge a little four and add salt, cayenne, a little lemon juice, and finally two tablespootfuls of cream; let these just boil, and pour over the fish.-BoSton Budget.
 The following IS given as a mos quito remedy: Roll piece of paper around lead pencil, so as to form case; fill this with very dry Pyrethrum powder, putting in little at time and pressing down with the lead pencil. Set in a cup of dry sand or something 10 hold it erect and an hour before going to bed close the room and burn one of these cartridges. A single one will be sufficient for small room; large one would require two.-IndiG1s- GpoIiS Journal
 For making dressing for sliced tomatoes, beat two eggs well together, add one teaspoonful of sugar, one- fourth of a teaspoonful of salt the same of prepared mustard, one table spoonful of vinegar. Place the bowl containing it in a basin of boiling water, and stir till about the thickness of cream. It will take about five minutes if the bowl is thick and the water boils at the right time. Cool and use as needed. Indianapolis Jour- nal
 Corn Bread in Cups.-Two and half cups of Indian meal, one cup of flour, three tablespoonfuls of corn starch. three tablespoonfuls of short- ening, three eggs, one tablespoonful of soda and three and half cups of thick. sour milk, and salt at discretion; it should be thin batter; bake quickly in small tins or cups. It is best to soak the meal all night, or at least several hours in the sour milk, adding the other ingredients just before bak- ing. .-ETchGnge.